cordializev.
/ˈkɔːdɪəlʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈkɔrdʒəˌlaɪz/ I. Senses relating to cordial n.† 2. transitive. To strengthen, restore, comfort, or treat (the heart, a person) with, or as if with, cordials. Also intransitive. Obsolete.
1. transitive. To make into a cordial. Also (and in earliest use) intransitive: to become a cordial, to become sweet.
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the world > food and drink > drink > preparation of drinks > [verb (transitive)] > prepare specific drink
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1640 W. Vaughan Church Militant 315 They doe bring forth two or three Kiddes a piece Within the Yeare; their Milk doth cordialize, Natur'd like what they eate.
1774 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. 1772 342 Rum, cordialized with Jelly of bilberries.
1847 Mechanics' Mag. 13 Nov. 483/1 In cordializing spirits..to the 50 gallons of proof spirit 50 gallons of sugar and water would be added.
1933 Food Industries May 168/1 Such fruits as cherries, grapes and pineapple pieces are commonly cordialized in chocolate.
1952 A. Leighton Text Bk. on Candy Making 27 Those chocolate coated centers that are caused to liquefy (cordialise) on storage.
1987 Washington Post (Nexis) 13 Feb. b1 The cream..contains an enzyme that will ‘cordialize’ it.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatment by medicine or drug > treat with drugs [verb (transitive)] > treat with stimulants
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a1649 G. Abbott Brief Notes Psalms (1651) 591 Thy promise through faith doth comfort and cordialize my heart.
1807 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 17 43 A state which the unwary would assert to be typhus, and begin..to cordialise.
1825 Lancet 17 Dec. 417/1 There is also the art of emulsionizing a cough, and of cordializing a pious spinster,..who will swallow alcohol by the ounce from the doctor.
II. Senses relating to cordial adj.
3. transitive. To make cordial or friendly. Now rare.
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1792 T. Paine Rights of Man: Pt. Second 82 Commerce..is a pacific system, operating to cordialize mankind, by rendering nations, as well as individuals, useful to each other.
1817 Bp. J. Jebb Let. 16 Dec. in C. Forster Life & Sel. Lett. Jebb (1837) lxii. 575 Inward religion..congenializes and cordializes human life.
2014 R. Cotton Shadow River xvi. 183 Music cordial-izes me something fierce when I'm drunk.
4. intransitive. To become cordial; to be on terms of cordiality, fraternize (with). Chiefly Scottish. Now rare.
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the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > fraternization > fraternize [verb (intransitive)]
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1813 A. Knox Let. 18 Sept. in J. Jebb & A. Knox Thirty Years' Corr. (1834) II. 164 I have not, beyond these walls, one thoroughly congenial soul..I do not know even one, who cordializes with me, on the same intellectual level.
1861 J. Brown Horæ Subsecivæ 2nd Ser. 292 With devotional feeling..he cordialized wherever and in whomsoever it was found.
1864 J. Brown John Leech in Horæ Subsecivæ (1882) 3rd Ser. 14 He would have found one student..with whom he would have cordialised.
2019 CE Noticias Financieras Eng. Newswire (Nexis) 20 Aug. I have observed that during the baseball games some ballplayers start talking, cordializing, with the opposites when they reach the pads.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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